Areas devoted to recognizing faces and the emotions they convey lie in association areas in the
a. limbic system.
b. reticular activating system.
c. occipital and frontal lobes.
d. temporal and parietal lobes.
ANSWER: c
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Cognitive developmental theory
a. is primarily based on the idea that children learn gender typing by a series of rewards and punishments. b. emphasizes that modeling is especially important in the acquisition of gender typing. c. emphasizes children's own roles in the acquisition of gender roles. d. emphasizes that the media are more important than parents in children's acquisition of gender typing.
The most common criticism of Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental explanation of gender typing is that
a. children often acquire gender-typed behaviors and preferences before they acquire gender stability and consistency. b. his proposed sex differences in the rate at which boys acquire gender versus girls remains unsupported. c. there is no evidence that the development of cognitive skills is related to the acquisition of gender typing. d. it places too much emphasis on hormonal factors.
Which of the following is true about parental investment?
A. Males are more selective about with whom they choose to mate than females. B. Males of many species are free to mate with as many females as they can. C. Investment in selecting a mate is larger for males than for females. D. Males select mates who are more likely to be good parents.
Support for Piaget's theory has been found in his view that
a. preschoolers are egocentric and lack conservation. b. cognitive development progresses discontinuously. c. cognitive development occurs in a particular sequence. d. all of these.